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Atlantis: We Will Never Know

Fantasy is a tough sell in the twentieth century.
The world has been fully discovered and fully mapped. Popular media has
effectively minimized the legend and the fantastic rumor, though to make up for
this it has generated falsities not as lavish but just as interesting.
Satellites have mapped and studied the earth, leaving only a space frontier that
is as yet unreachable.
But standing out is a charming fantasy the modern world has yet to verify or
condemn: the lost continent of Atlantis.
The father of the modern world's perception of Atlantis is Plato (circa
428-circa 347 b.c.). (1) The Greek philosopher spoke in his works Timaeus and
Critias of a continent in the Atlantic ...

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because when the rulers of Atlantis threatened to invade all of
Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans
to avoid enslavement. (4)
The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on
whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been
placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden,
Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been hypothesized;
mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and even the barren wasteland of
Antarctica have been mentioned in theories. (5)
While some of these theories are compatible with Plato's works and are
within relative reason, numerous crackpot theories have been developed using the
lost continent as a basis. One of these theories, posted on the computer
internet where it has access to over fifteen million people, talks in twenty-one
pages of pre-historical lands with names like Oz and Luxor. These world ...

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Added: 7/30/2007 09:42:44 AM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1000
Pages: 4

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